...-time, hardware, OS, operator console, etc. Doing it that way allows the standard to describe results, without worrying about compile ... it that the HPF experiment didn't work out the way people intended. There are no complete HPF compilers and it's ...default value at the declaration of a variable? | |Yes, however the way it is done often confuses people familiar | |with ...

...| |> Does Fortran allow a default value at the declaration of a variable? | |Yes, however the way it is done often confuses people familiar | |with other languages." | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Could you give or point to an unconfusing explanation for people familiar ...

... several person-(months|years) of effort, instead of investing an hour of general counsel's time in studying the licensing conditions and come to the conclusion that they will not restrict us in any way. Oh, that causes you problems with the profitability of that project? Well, then that's your problem, mate." I've seen that attitude also. Fortunately, as a small company you can't ...

...I'd find it frustrating, like I found some of the rules I got stuck with frustrating. I often found the justifications inadequate and sometimes directly self contradicting, where the alleged justifications changed in ways that directly contradicted the prior set every time one asked. But then some of this was from people who I know to have blatantly lied to me. They didn't want to say that ...

...centers to realize that it was only Dryden that interpreted some of those dictates in those ways, which coincidentally seemed to match the inclinations of the local powers. I'm half surprised... happy that they lost that one and seemed to delight in continually comming up with ways to make it harder. -- Richard Maine | Good judgement comes from experience; email: last ...

.... My "lying about the interface" question was about how you would end up with an INTENT(IN) dummy getting passed along to a mutable dummy. It had occurred to me that it might not be allowed to pass an INTENT(IN) into an unspecified intent, in which case lying about the interface (providing an interface block that didn't match the actual procedure) would be the only way to do it.

... of error that the standard requires implementations to detect and report. -- J. Giles "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare "...

...The above is a direct quote from one of my articles and is *way* out of context. Yes, there are a number of things the Fortran ... Ada does. -- J. Giles "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." --...

... undefined variables. Given something like DIMENSION A(10000000000) it's hard to imagine an efficient way to check for undefinedness. If a value is required, the variable must be in a defined ...> Does Fortran allow a default value at the declaration of a variable? Yes, however the way it is done often confuses people familiar with other languages. Dick Hendrickson Yours ...

... this other than as flame material? It was quite explicit in the citation (which was mine, by the way) that this was an f90 feature fixed in f95. I'll not elaborate on details of several of the other questions. The answers Francois gave are at least good enough, if they aren't quite the way I would have answered. Several of them seem to fall in the categories of either: 1. Does some ...